GAL

Dates: March 15th - 19th, 2017
Place: NIG Lecture Hall (March 15th - 17th) and NIG Guest House Seminar Room (March 18th - 19th), National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan 
 Map of NIG campus (Lecture Hall is building D)

GAL Workshop Program
== Day 1: Wednesday, March 15, 2017 at NIG Lecture Hall ==

# Session: General Overview
10:00-12:00
Saitou Naruya (40 min)
Title: How we should combine genomic data with archeoligical and linguistic data to elucidate evolutionary history of modern humans
Sato Yoichiro (40 min)
Title: Multiple origins of agriculture in Japanese Archipelago
Fujio Shinichiro (40 min)
Title: Interaction between Garden Culture People and Farmer in Yayoi period

12:00-14:00 Lunch: lunch box will be provided to invited people (at NIG Main Buidling 3F Seminar Room)

# Session: Ancient DNA
14:00-16:30
Kanzawa-Kiriyama Hideaki (60 min)
Title: Genomic insights into the relationship between Jomon and modern East Eurasians
Sato Takehiro (60 min)
Title: Ancient human genome sequence from a prehistoric Okhotsk individual
Saitou Naruya (30 min)
Title: Review of recent ancient human genome studies

#Session: Archeology 1
16:30-17:30
Yoneda Minoru (60 min)
Title: Dietary reconstruction of prehistoric hunter-gatherers and early rice
farmers of Japan and the Lower Yangtzu-river region in China.

18:00-20:00 Opening Dinner & Discussion at NIG Lecture Hall: within NIG (all participants are invited)

== Day 2: Thursday, March 16, 2017 at NIG Lecture Hall ==

#Session: Archeology 2
10:00-11:00
Dorian Fuller (60 min)
Title: Millet and soybean origins in China and their relevance to East Asian demography and agricultural dispersal

10:00-11:00
#Session: Modern DNA in East Asia 1
Kimura Ryosuke (60 min)
Title: Interpopulation differentiation and neutrality in the human face

12:00-14:00 Lunch: lunch box will be provided to invited people (at NIG Main Buidling 3F Seminar Room)

#Session: Archeology 3
14:00-16:00
Sala Renato (60 min)
Title: Analysis of migratory patterns in Central Asia on the basis of environmental, archaeological and genetic data
Kadowaki Seiji (60 min)
Title: Space-time distributions and behavioral changes of Neanderthals and modern humans in west Asia: archaeological records on the Middle-to-Upper Palaeolithic transition

Dinner: with your own

== Day 3: Friday, March 17, 2017 at NIG Lecture Hall ==

# Session: Language 1
10:00-12:00
Martine Robbeets (60 min)
Title: Millet and beans, language and genes. The dispersal of the Transeurasian languages
Saitou Naruya (60 min)
Title: Study history of searching relatives of Japanese language 

12:00-14:00 Lunch: lunch box will be provided to invited people (at NIG Main Buidling 3F Seminar Room)

# Session: Language 2
14:00-17:00
Anna Bugaeva (60 min)
Title: A typological profile Ainu in the context of languages of Northeast Asia
George van Driem (60 min)
Title: Who are the Japanese, and where did they come from? Insights from language and genes
Karimata Shigehisa & Kibe Nobuko  (60 min)
Title: The linguistic difference between Northern and Southern Ryukyuan from the perspective of human movement

Dinner: with your own

== Day 4: Saturday, March 18, 2017 at NIG Guest House Seminar Room ==

# Session: Modern DNA in Eurasia
10:00-12:00
Analabha Basu (60 min)
Title: Genomic reconstruction of the history of extant populations of India reveals multiple ancestral components and a complex structure in South East Asia
Timothy A. Jinam (60 min)
Title: Human genetic diversity in Southeast Asia: from the present to the past

12:00-14:00 Lunch: lunch box will be provided to invited people (at NIG Guest Houe first floor)

# Session: Modern DNA in East Asia 2
14:00-17:00
Xu Shuhua (60 min)
Title: Genetic origin and high-altitude adaptation of Tibetan highlanders
Da Di (60 min)
Title: Dual structure: the HLA genetic variation in Eastern Eurasia
Nakaoka Hirofumi (60 min)
Title: Distribution of HLA haplotypes across Japanese Archipelago: similarity, difference and admixture

#Session: Archeology 3
17:15-18:15
Hongo Hitomi (60 min)
Title: Sedentary hunter-gathers in the northern Fertile Crescent and the process of animal domestication

18:30-20:00  Dinner & Discussion at NIG Guest House 1st floor: invited people only

== Day 5: Sunday, March 19, 2017 at NIG Guest House Seminar Room  ==

# Session: Methods
10:00-12:00
Osada Naoki (60 min)
Title: Evolution of gene expression: a case in human evolution and a novel method to quantify confounding genetic and epigenetic effects
Satta Yoko (60 min)
Title: Demographic history in the human lineage

12:00-14:00 Lunch: lunch box will be provided to invited people (at NIG Guest Houe first floor)

# Concluding Session
14:00-15:00
Osada Toshiki (40 min)
Title: Why don't the Japanese linguists make a research on the origins of Japanese recently?
Saitou Naruya (20 min)
Title: Nex GAL workshop proposal

GAL Workshop Confirmed speakers
Genetics
Dr. Analabha Basu (Associate Professor, National Institute of Biomedical Genomics, India)
Dr. Da Di (Assistant Professor, University of Geneva, Switzerland) 
Dr. Inoue Ituro (Professor, Division of Human Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Japan)
Dr. Timothy A. Jinam (Assistant Professor, Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Japan)
Dr. Kanzawa-Kiriyama Hideaki (Curator / Curator of the Center for Molecular Biodiversity Research, National Museum of Nature and Science, Japan)
Dr. Kimura Ryosuke (Associate Professor, University of the Ryukyus, Japan)
Dr. Nakaoka Hirofumi (Assistant Professor, Division of Human Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Japan)
Dr. Osada Naoki (Associate Professor, Hokkaido University, Japan)
Dr. Saitou Naruya (Professor, Division of Population Genetics, National Institute of Genetics, Japan)
Dr. Sato Takehiro (Assistant Professor, Department of Bioinformatics and Genomics, Kanazawa University, Japan)
Dr. Satta Yoko (Professor, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan)
Dr. Xu Shuhua (Professor, CAS-MPG Partner Institute for Computational Biology, China)

Archeology
Dr. Fujio Shinichiro (Deputy Director General, National Museum of Japanese History, Japan)
Dr. Dorian Fuller (Professor, University College London, UK)
Dr. Hongo Hitomi (Associate Professor, The Graduate University for Advanced Studies, Japan)
Dr. Kadowaki Seiji (Lecturer, Graduate School of Environmental Studies, Nagoya University, Japan)
Dr. Renato Sala (Director, Kazakh national university named after al-Farabi, Kazakhstan)
Dr. Sato Yoichiro (Executive Director, National Institutes for the Humanities, Japan)
Dr. Yoneda Minoru (Professor, The University Museum,The University of Tokyo, Japan)

Linguistics
Dr. Anna Bugaeva (Associate Professor, Tokyo University of Science, Japan)
Dr. George van Driem (Professor, University of Bern, Switzerland) "see also this page"
Dr. Karimata Shigehisa (Professor, International Institute for Okinawan Studies, University of the Ryukyus, Japan)
Dr. Kibe Nobuko (Deputy Director-General Division Head / Professor, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Japan)
Dr. Martine Robbeets (Professor and research group leader, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Germany)
Dr. Osada Toshiki (Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature, Japan)


GAL Workshop administrative office:
Saitou Lab
National Institute of Genetics
Mishima, 411-8540, Japan
email: saitounr@nig.ac.jp
phone: +81-55-981-6790
fax: +81-55-981-6789

This workshop was funded by ROIS (Research Organization of Information and System) and by CPIS (Center for Promortion of Integrated Science) of SOKENDAI.

Version: March 21, A.S. 0017 (2017 A.D.)